Sources, files and debates on the trade union movement and workers in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship 1973-1990

The article aims to analyze the relationship between access to sources and archives and the evolution of debates about the role of the trade union movement in the dictatorship Chile. For this, a brief state of the question about labor historiography, its debates and inflection points will be made; later, the main sources on the history of the trade union movement will be identified in the dictatorship, to raise the potential and challenges of its examination, which can contribute to the renewal of studies and to a more complete and documented reconstruction of this crucial period in Chile's recent history.